Risk Factors Dale C. Hesdorffer Introduction Well-established risk factors for unprovoked seizures include head trauma, central nervous system (CNS) infection, Alzheimer disease, clinically detected stroke, febrile seizures, cerebral palsy, and…
Epilepsy: Historical Perspectives Michael D. Daras Peter F. Bladin Mervyn J. Eadie David Millett (The fact is that the cause of this affection is in the brain.) Hippocrates: On the…
Sociocultural Perspectives Leon Eisenberg Introduction The clinical course of epilepsy is the result of two vectors: The pathophysiology of the disease process and the social context in which the patient…
Overview: Epidemiology, Pathology, and Genetics W. Allen Hauser Introduction This is an exciting era for clinicians and investigators interested in the mechanisms of epileptogenesis. Advances in technology during the last…
Introduction: What Is Epilepsy? Jerome Engel Jr. Timothy A. Pedley Introduction Epilepsy is one of the most common disorders of the brain.28 One of every ten people will have at…
Treatment of Myoclonic Epilepsies of Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood Marco T. Medina* Iris E. Martínez-Juárez† Reyna M. Durón* Pierre Genton‡ Renzo Guerrini§ Charlotte Dravet‡ Michelle Bureau‡ Katerina Tanya Perez-Gosiengfiao† Claudia…
Ketogenic Diet in Patients with Dravet Syndrome and Myoclonic Epilepsies in Infancy and Early Childhood Natalio Fejerman* Roberto Caraballo* Ricardo Cersosimo* *Department of Neurology, Hospital de Pediatria Juan P. Garrahan,…
Treatment of Myoclonic Epilepsies in Infancy and Early Childhood Raman Sankar* James W. Wheless† Charlotte Dravet‡ Renzo Guerrini§ Marco T. Medina¶ Michelle Bureau‡ Pierre Genton‡ Antonio V. Delgado–Escueta¶ *Departments of…
Familial Adult Myoclonic Epilepsy (FAME) Eiichiro Uyama* Ying-Hui Fu† Louis J. Ptácek†,‡ *Department of Neurology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan †Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco,…
Autosomal Dominant Cortical Myoclonus and Epilepsy (ADCME) with Linkage to Chromosome 2p11.1-q12.2 Renzo Guerrini* Lucio Parmeggiani* Carla Marini* Paola Brovedani* Paolo Bonanni* *Epilepsy, Neurophysiology and Neurogenetics Unit, Department of Child…
